History of Dominican movie

first appearance of the Dominican cinema

Aug 7, 1900

Curiel Theater of the northern city of Puerto Plata offers an exhibition of the cinematographic Lumièrenicano

first film shot in the Dominican Republic by a foreigner.

1915

In 1915 the Puerto Rican cameraman Rafael Colorado filmed Excursión de José de Diego to Santo Domingo, the first film shot in the Dominican Republic by a foreigne

the first Dominican fiction movie

1922

In the history of silent Dominican cinema, the works of the photographer and editor Francisco Palau stand out. Together with Juan B. Alfonseca, the photographer Tuto Báez and the collaboration of the historian Bernardo Pichardo, in 1922 he produced the first Dominican fiction film,

premiere of the first Dominican movie

1923

Palau premiered on the night of February 16, 1923, and became the first Dominican film

"The ambushes of Cupid"

1924

This film, told in five acts, told the story of a couple of lovers who did not have the consent of the father of the bride, and forced the groom to make a funny plot so that the father can accept it. It was exhibited to the public on March 19, 1924

The first use of sound

1930

The first use of sound was a news film about the inauguration of President Rafael Leonidas Trujillo in 1930

documentaries for the regime.

1953

Only in 1953, the filmmaker Rafael Augusto Sánchez Sanlley (Pupito), produced with the company "Cine Dominicano", thirteen documentaries for the regime

the dramatist Franklin Domínguez rolls his feature film La silla

1963

In 1963 the dramatist Franklin Domínguez rolls his feature film La silla, where he denounces the horrors of the Trujillo regime. After this filmic proposal a lapse of twenty-five years takes place until another Dominican product appears that bears witness to the will to formalize a Dominican filmography. Agliberto Meléndez, founder of the Cinemateca Nacional, filmed in 1988, his first feature A one-way ticket